The result may seem controversial. The historic building covered and wrapped in the new coat made of steel and glass. However, its biggest spatial asset, a 15 meters wide and about 80 meters long column-less hall, is preserved in its whole, left almost seemingly untouched. The old jewel-like structure made of brick and wood has become a part of the interior (like a gemstone embedded in precious jewelry).
The concept of the coat helped to solve the additional spaces and service and technical premises in a very clear way. The roof of the warehouse formed a wide canopy on both sides covering the logistic platforms where the freight wagons approached on the one side and trucks on the other. Now both platforms under the canopies are turned to posh, glamorous lobbies. Additionally, another full-height space is attached on the (southern) end of the historic building bringing it closer to the street and serving as the main entrance lobby. A new coat of the building also helped to satisfy today’s strict energy efficiency guidelines.
The old building with preserved textures and details is confronted with minimalist materiality of concrete (continuous terrazzo floor), steel and glass creating a nobby harmony and amazing but also poetic spaces. Fine new details express modest references to the railway aesthetics and also the preserved rail track through the new building as well as platforms, now embodied in concrete, are cherishing the memories of the place.
Old warehouse upcycled to the multipurpose venue — for concerts, exhibitions, banquets, and other gatherings now stores and deals with the ‘goods’ of culture. The main hall of 1200 sqm could be divided into three separate spaces, allowing noteworthy flexibility. The new building acquires another appearance by the night when lobbies are illuminated and the picturesque old structure becomes visible from the outside through the generous and transparent lobbies. Silhouettes of people lingering on the stretched platform and along the encounter appear as an actor on the new and snazzy stage in once-neglected city corners.
#Latvia, #lighting , #extention , #interior_design , #lighting , #cultural_center , #industrial , #warehouse , #train_station , #multi_function , #landscape
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The concept of the coat helped to solve the additional spaces and service and technical premises in a very clear way. The roof of the warehouse formed a wide canopy on both sides covering the logistic platforms where the freight wagons approached on the one side and trucks on the other. Now both platforms under the canopies are turned to posh, glamorous lobbies. Additionally, another full-height space is attached on the (southern) end of the historic building bringing it closer to the street and serving as the main entrance lobby. A new coat of the building also helped to satisfy today’s strict energy efficiency guidelines.
The old building with preserved textures and details is confronted with minimalist materiality of concrete (continuous terrazzo floor), steel and glass creating a nobby harmony and amazing but also poetic spaces. Fine new details express modest references to the railway aesthetics and also the preserved rail track through the new building as well as platforms, now embodied in concrete, are cherishing the memories of the place.
Old warehouse upcycled to the multipurpose venue — for concerts, exhibitions, banquets, and other gatherings now stores and deals with the ‘goods’ of culture. The main hall of 1200 sqm could be divided into three separate spaces, allowing noteworthy flexibility. The new building acquires another appearance by the night when lobbies are illuminated and the picturesque old structure becomes visible from the outside through the generous and transparent lobbies. Silhouettes of people lingering on the stretched platform and along the encounter appear as an actor on the new and snazzy stage in once-neglected city corners.
#Latvia, #lighting , #extention , #interior_design , #lighting , #cultural_center , #industrial , #warehouse , #train_station , #multi_function , #landscape
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NO.121
Burgos Railway Station Refurbishment / Contell-Martínez Arquitectos
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TRAIN STATION, RENOVATION
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BURGOS, SPAIN
• Architects: Contell-Martínez Arquitectos
• Area: 2347.0 m²
• Year: 2016
• Manufacturers: Heradesign, Viroc, Mazarrón tejas
• Quantity Surveyors: Vicente Sevila, José Ignacio Maté
• Strcture: Francisco Javier Cases
• Sv Engineering: Leing S.L.
• Old Railway Station: 2.347,46 m2
• Pergola: 226,94 m2
• Urbanization: 4.853,00 m2
• WORK SELECTED AT THE XIV SPANISH BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING (BEAU)
• WORK SELECTED IN THE VI 2016-2017 EDITION OF THE ARQUIA PROXIMA PROGRAM
• WORK SELECTED IN THE III TIS HISPALYT ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2015-2017 - REHABILITATION CATEGORY
Text description provided by the architects. The project aims to rehabilitate the Old Railway Station to accommodate a recreational and leisure program intended primarily for children and youth. The intervention extends, on one side, over the Station Square (former Travelers Courtyard) as a pedestrian and relationship space and, on the other side, a boulevard that is today where the railways used to be.
In order to contextualize and integrate the building, a new pergola is built adapting its shape to this new boulevard. It serves not only as a transition between the scale of the building and the green area but also it remains to the great iron and glass marquee that protected the railways and the platforms. This pergola serves now as support for the cafe as well as it dilutes the boundaries of the building in relation with the west side wooded area.
The intervention proposed in the Travelers Building seeks to recover its essence, adapting the construction to the new intended use. This is achieved by reinterpreting in depth the spatial whole conception, as well as the physical and visual relationship between the parts that characterize it as an architectural piece.
The building is structured along a linear axis and is divided into the different areas requested in the program: In the east wing, the children's area; in the west one the restaurant and cafe area; in the access space, at the old mezzanine level, the administration and on the first floor, the youth area. Finally, the three towers are joined through walkways with stairways at the ends.
The core of vertical communications and services is strategically built in the central body, this allows the individual use of the different building areas without the need to duplicate communication elements or toilets, while allowing facilities concentration.
In the access to the building from the Travelers Courtyard, the original space is recovered thanks to two canopies that penetrate in the building, which also serves as windbreaks. These define the access point and the original geometry by reinterpreting that element.
Inside, loading walls are cut down on the ground floor to achieve a fluid space and to get visual continuity between the different bodies. At the same time, the mezzanine slab, which was executed with little fortune in the middle of the twentieth century fragmenting the original height of the ground floor space, is completely eliminated. This level is only partially recovered at the access, after crossing a threshold with the original height of the Train Station, which achieves a compression of the space prior to accessing to the lateral bodies.
#Spain , #train_station, #children , #metal , #lighting , #interior_design
@revitalization
Burgos Railway Station Refurbishment / Contell-Martínez Arquitectos
•
TRAIN STATION, RENOVATION
•
BURGOS, SPAIN
• Architects: Contell-Martínez Arquitectos
• Area: 2347.0 m²
• Year: 2016
• Manufacturers: Heradesign, Viroc, Mazarrón tejas
• Quantity Surveyors: Vicente Sevila, José Ignacio Maté
• Strcture: Francisco Javier Cases
• Sv Engineering: Leing S.L.
• Old Railway Station: 2.347,46 m2
• Pergola: 226,94 m2
• Urbanization: 4.853,00 m2
• WORK SELECTED AT THE XIV SPANISH BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING (BEAU)
• WORK SELECTED IN THE VI 2016-2017 EDITION OF THE ARQUIA PROXIMA PROGRAM
• WORK SELECTED IN THE III TIS HISPALYT ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2015-2017 - REHABILITATION CATEGORY
Text description provided by the architects. The project aims to rehabilitate the Old Railway Station to accommodate a recreational and leisure program intended primarily for children and youth. The intervention extends, on one side, over the Station Square (former Travelers Courtyard) as a pedestrian and relationship space and, on the other side, a boulevard that is today where the railways used to be.
In order to contextualize and integrate the building, a new pergola is built adapting its shape to this new boulevard. It serves not only as a transition between the scale of the building and the green area but also it remains to the great iron and glass marquee that protected the railways and the platforms. This pergola serves now as support for the cafe as well as it dilutes the boundaries of the building in relation with the west side wooded area.
The intervention proposed in the Travelers Building seeks to recover its essence, adapting the construction to the new intended use. This is achieved by reinterpreting in depth the spatial whole conception, as well as the physical and visual relationship between the parts that characterize it as an architectural piece.
The building is structured along a linear axis and is divided into the different areas requested in the program: In the east wing, the children's area; in the west one the restaurant and cafe area; in the access space, at the old mezzanine level, the administration and on the first floor, the youth area. Finally, the three towers are joined through walkways with stairways at the ends.
The core of vertical communications and services is strategically built in the central body, this allows the individual use of the different building areas without the need to duplicate communication elements or toilets, while allowing facilities concentration.
In the access to the building from the Travelers Courtyard, the original space is recovered thanks to two canopies that penetrate in the building, which also serves as windbreaks. These define the access point and the original geometry by reinterpreting that element.
Inside, loading walls are cut down on the ground floor to achieve a fluid space and to get visual continuity between the different bodies. At the same time, the mezzanine slab, which was executed with little fortune in the middle of the twentieth century fragmenting the original height of the ground floor space, is completely eliminated. This level is only partially recovered at the access, after crossing a threshold with the original height of the Train Station, which achieves a compression of the space prior to accessing to the lateral bodies.
#Spain , #train_station, #children , #metal , #lighting , #interior_design
@revitalization